Radiohead – “Identikit” & “Cut A Hole”

Last night in Miami, Radiohead kicked off their American arena tour with a stop at Miami’s American Airlines Arena. During what looks like an awesome 24-song set, they took the opportunity to debut a couple of new songs, a disoriented percussive wailer called “Identikit” and a slow-moving quiet one called “Cut A Hole,” both pretty excellent. They also played the Airbag EP’s “Meeting In The Aisle” live for the first time ever. And Thom Yorke wore a ponytail, so prepare yourselves for those things to become suddenly cool. Download audience recordings of “Identikit” and “Cut A Hole” below…

I’m not going to call it a “hook” but Identikit gives the listeners something to grab onto first listen. I like that. And it has to be fun for a band to have a discography so strong it can omit classics and get away with it in their setlists.

Wait wait stop right meow,
Do you mean In Rainbows only had 2-3 good songs, or that after In Rainbows they’ve only 2-3 good songs. Because you say none of them were on KoL which leaves, well 2 or 3 non-KoL songs. If you’re saying that after KoL all of their songs have been good, then why are you not excited for even newer songs?
Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve argued about Radiohead on the internet with a cat before

In Rainbows – the best album of a decade
King Of Limbs – awful
Good songs: staircase, the butcher
Even tkol remixes are mostly boring, athough for me bloom mark pritchard rmx overall is far better song than the original

It sounded a little different in person. The vocals were almost certainly a play on the Animal Collective back and forth Noah/Avey vocals but the instrumentation felt kind of the XX-like (specifically like Basic Space.)

yeah happened last time i saw them too…i guess ya gotta give them slack on that one, it takes a lot of energy to pull that bad boy off night after night. i bet they swap it for karma police the rest the tour, maybe there there.

New songs sound cool THOUGH hard to really tell with the audio being so flawed:( BUT i’m just happy they’re here again, happy Thom shaved that ugly beard, happy the new set looks amazing, and happy to see them prove once again who’s the king of the music world:) (and PRAYING for news of a couple MIDWEST dates!!! ….i can’t fathom them skipping Toronto and Chicago)

Why even bother to try to create anything great? I have realistic expectations for a taste of cheap chocolate bar. From artist i expect ART, not some mediocre stuff. And there is no bigger waste of time that contemplating shitty art. Instead of that you better go for a walk.

Do Stereogum peeps or anybody have any dirt on whether Radiohead plans on announcing any Northeast dates on this tour?!?!?!

I’m up in Boston, and I can’t believe they haven’t or won’t announce anything closer than Atlanta. They are coming back to the East Coast for Bonnaroo, so I’m hoping they announce something around that. But they haven’t and it’s stressing me out!

Dear Joe, thanks for your comments but…would you rather we just break up vs. doing what we want? Cause we almost did that 10 years ago, so I’d say if you love the band, love the band 100%, warts n all. Guitars will come and go, and we understand your preference for the past sounds, but we’re constantly evolving that’s just the way we are, hope that’s good enough for you.

Really? huh. I’d say top 15 maybe, but that’s a hard list to compete with, 2/3 of OKC deserves to be in their top 10 alone. I’d go with Separator over Codex anyway, it’s the one true standout track that’s totally different from all the rest, and with that amazing unusual beat you gotta love it. Where as Codex as yummy as it is, sounds very similar to a lot of ballady stuff Thom was writing 95-99. BUT, I don’t care about any of that, all i care about is an announcement of “RADIOHEAD ADD MORE US DATES” cuz i’m freaking out I’m not gonna be able to see them this spring/summer:(

way to drop the ball with the Radiohead new TOUR DATE announcement today S’gum, but that’s ok, i’ll comment on it anyway, “THANK GOD!!! and holy shit they’re playing michigan for the first time since 97!? wow, i’m gonna TRY to see 3 of these shows…though with ticket demand, not too realistic, i’ll settle on two:)’ there.

Oh man. I never thought of it as an alarm song. I have been using “Splendor” by M83, “Powa” by tUnE-yArDs, abnd “Lisbon” by The Walkmen. I’m gonna rip you off and ruin Separator also. It seems like the right thing to do.

I might have to call in sick so I can attend the Tuesday, may 29th show in Boston. It’s a goal of mine to see them live before they break up or I die.

Why bother uploading this crap? The sound is horrible, not giving any respect to the music or the artist. Does anyone care about sound quality anymore? I would rather NOT listen to music than to endure this aural assault.

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